07/13/06 "Information
Clearing House" -- -- I began researching the
mainstream media coverage of the controversy regarding the attacks
of 9/11/2001, when reading an article in the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel Newspaper, dated June 29th, 2006. It was titled, "Sept. 11
claim stirs UW probe -- Instructor says U.S. planned the attacks to
provoke war." This led to my discovery of some wild conspiracy
theorists that endanger our government and media establishments,
with quite frankly insane assertions. I'll address this in full in
the final paragraph.

Some of these guests referred to an organization called "Scholars
for 9/11 Truth" with a website www.st911.org, which offered a
physics research paper questioning the official explanation of the
events of 9/11/2001. While visiting this site, I read that they
pointed to the temperatures of the fires in the WTC buildings, and
construction of the buildings, and the speed they fell, as evidence
they claimed proved that what we saw on 9/11/2001 when the towers
fell had to have been the result of a controlled demolition. Like
the ones we've seen with Las Vegas hotels being brought down. Their
claim was that the WTC buildings could not have been caused solely
by the aircraft hitting the WTC buildings that day.

Then, I contacted the office of a Wisconsin State Legislator, Rep.
Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater), and asked to speak to someone in the
office who could speak on this issue. I asked if he was familiar
with the Scholars for 9/11 Truth website, and he replied they had
learned of it this week. I asked him if he and the Representative
could comment on the charge that the fires on 9/11/2001 in the WTC
buildings did not burn hot enough to bring down the buildings, and
if he'd read the scholars organization's charge that thermate traces
had been found on debris from the fallen towers (thermate indicating
demolition type explosives were involved). The gentleman responded
that no, they had not looked at this information, and this would not
be something they would look at, further indicating that anyone who
made such charges was blinded by their hatred of President Bush.

Which leads back to the interviews of guests on the three television
news programs. The main theme of all three of the guests on these
programs appeared to be concern of the physical evidence of
9/11/2001, mentioned above and particularly regarding the collapse
of three of the World Trade Center buildings on that day.

The main themes of the interviewers on these programs appeared to be
two-fold:
1) The guests were representing a fringe movement, and most
Americans do not dispute the official 9/11 explanation of the 19
hijackers defeating US military and intelligence forces on
9/11/2001.

2) The guests and those they speak for, who question the official
9/11/2001 account, are of questionable sanity.

This motivated me to do some research. First I looked at the fringe
movement issue that the majority of Americans disagreed with the
programs guests and accept the official explanation, and secondly,
the sanity and expertise of people like their guests who question
the official story of 9/11/2001.

First, regarding the fringe issue, asserting that the guests
questioning the events of 9/11 reflected a small minority of
American opinion. I looked at the only polls I could find on these
questions, and the results were surprising. A CNN viewers poll,
which is not scientific, held Wednesday, November 10th, 2005, asked,
"Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding
9/11?" 89% replied "Yes," they did believe there was a cover-up by
the U.S. Government (9,441 votes), while only 12% felt there was no
cover-up.

In a national Zogby poll, of May 2006, found that 45%, of the
American public felt a new 9/11 investigation should be launched
because "so many unanswered questions about 9/11 remain that
Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the
attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously
allowed or helped facilitate their success." An earlier Zogby poll
of New York City residents, from August of 2004, found that Half
(49.3%) of New Yorkers felt that U.S. government officials "knew in
advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001,
and that they consciously failed to act." While 66% of New Yorkers
called for a new probe of Unanswered Questions by Congress or New
York’s Attorney General.

Now to the second issue the television media interviewers were most
concerned with, which was the expertise and sanity of the people
demanding a new 9/11 investigation, and some even suggesting
possible U.S. government complicity in the attacks of 9/11/2001.
Again, a simple google "video 9/11" search, provided a wealth of
information.

This too yielded some surprising results.

One of the loudest advocates of the most damning charge that
"members of the U.S. government actually orchestrated the events of
9/11 to fool the nation into unpopular wars", was not a tree-hugging
Green Party activist, but rather a prominent Republican, in fact a
Former Chief Economist under George Bush, and professor at Texas
A&M, Morgan Reynolds.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds12.html

Google research of the growing list of other 9/11 skeptics of the
official story, some "convinced of U.S. government involvement,"
while others not going that far, but pointing out that"the official
story is highly questionable and demands further investigation,"
yielded surprising results. Including a host of high level
Republican administration officials, defense experts, intelligence
experts, and respected scholars, as well as well known celebrities
who are now adding the spotlight of their names to the issue of
9/11.

Former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Senior Research
Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Research Fellow at Stanford's
Independent Institute, and former associate editor of the Wall
Street Journal, Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911#roberts

Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Minnesota, former Marine Corps officer, author or
editor of more than 20 books, and co-chair of Scholars For 9/11
Truth, James Fetzerhttp://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=122

So, now that we've examined the two main issues of concern for the
television news interviewers, which was the "fringe" aspect of the
questioners, and the "sanity/expertise" issue, it appears those
arguments are very weak arguments, really with no merit at all.

Obviously tens of millions of Americans, according to polls, want a
new investigation into 9/11/2001 and have a strong suspicion of U.S.
government involvement at some level. Obviously not all of the
national defense, intelligence, aeronautics, physics and engineering
experts questioning the official story of 9/11 are insane or
unqualified to comment.

This begs the question, in the face of such obvious facts, why do
our media personalities continue to attempt to throw out accusations
that are patently untrue regarding those who question the official
story?

When a television news interviewer continues to ask questions and
make assertions that he or she knows to be untrue, this would
challenge the expertise and sanity, not of their guests, but of the
television news interviewer.

The 9/11 truth movement appears to be growing rapidly, and involving
people of substantial credentials and expertise. As television and
some radio personalities continue to behave in what obviously is an
insane behavior, what do we do? Can we get our national media any
psychological help? If not, it would be wise to relieve them of
their positions at least. I feel increasingly uneasy about millions
of young minds being exposed night after night to comments and
opinions by people who increasingly appear to be insane, yet in
positions of authority.

Of course the concern here is larger. If there is any possibility or
doubt about whether the events of 9/11/2001 were participated in by
members of our own government, then our entire democracy and world
peace would be strengthened by getting to the bottom of the true
facts of this pinnacle event of our time. It would be unhealthy to
leave a cloud of doubt hanging over such assertions. There should be
a full fledged national debate, experts from all sides should be
interviewed on national media to get to the bottom of this once and
for all. Our Congress should launch investigations into the physics
questions that are causing so many to doubt the official story. No
matter where anyone stands on this issue, this is obviously the only
path to national healing and trust.

However, this debate on national media cannot occur if the
interviewers hired by national media continue to behave in an insane
irrational behavior, like "conspiracy theory wing-nuts." You see,
too many of our media spokespersons on television and radio adhere
to a wild conspiracy theory. Their theory is that anyone who looks
into the facts of the events of one of the most important issues in
history is alone, and insane, but yet somehow organized in some
united conspiratorial effort. Of course, the facts fly in the face
of this conspiracy theory, but these media personalities appear
unable to grasp reality even when it is pointed out to them.

For media reading this article, time will tell whether you are an
insane conspiracy theorist or not. If you too, are among the insane
in our media, the public will likely eventually demand your
resignation. As one who writes sometimes on parental issues, I
believe it is unhealthy to have insane people in charge of the
national information highways our children are taught to watch. We
need sane media people who look at facts regarding issues, not ones
who launch into insane screeds of paranoia to avoid reality.

Also, you may recall that when I contacted State Representative,
Stephen Nass' office, his aide stated that they were aware of but
not interested in and would not look at the physics facts provided
by the website Scholars for 9/11 Truth, www.st911.org. However, they
did want to fire a university teacher for presenting facts, many of
which were available on that site. To fire someone for presenting
facts, facts that you dispute, yet have no idea what those facts
are, and are unwilling to look at them to find out what they are . .
. is also insane. Again, as someone who writes on parenting issues,
as a concerned parent as well, America should also consider retiring
our insane government officials who fire people for facts they
aren't aware of and are unwilling to look at. These politicians
apparently assert some wild conspiracy theory that millions of
Americans are questioning the events of 9/11 because they are "Bush
haters" according to the aide at Nass' office. This kind of
delusional paranoia by our elected officials is of particular
concern. Such wild-eyed conspiratorialists should not be allowed in
government.

Bill Douglas, author of "The Amateur Parent - A Book on Life,
Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe"

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